7 reasons why Necromancy is banned

1-It often leads to Very Poor Outcomes 

If someone is genuinely trying to bring a deceased loved one back from the Lands of the Dead, it often fails, and what happens instead is either a zombie that only does whatever it is told, or a corpse possessed by a demon, that will harm , probably fatally, other people at the earliest possible opportunity. Very few necromancers can genuinely pull back somebody’s soul from the otherworld and place it within their deceased body, and when either the family are upset with the zombie that they end up with or the demon possessed corpse goes on a murder spree, the necromancer and necromancy itself gets the blame.

2-Not everybody is happy to be brought back 

If a spirit has been welcomed into Heaven because of his or her good deeds on Earth, then he or she is not going to be very happy to be yanked out of it and away from their deceased relatives and plonked back in their dead body.If on the other hand somebody was plucked out of Hell, then they genuinely did some very bad things to end up in Hell in the first place and  most people think that they should really have been left down there to suffer.

3-Dead bodies decompose

Even if the necromancer was skilled enough to bring back somebody’s soul and even if the soul in question was happy to be brought back, bodies tend to rot quite quickly after death. And the affected person will suffer horribly as first they start stinking and lose their sight, then their skin turns green , and then their brain and other organs rot and their muscles stop working and they are trapped within an immobile pile of bones, unable to move or speak.

At least one spell can temporarily prevent this, but because the Undead then has to murder a human every week in cold weather and every three days in hot weather to feed on life force and keep the spell working, it is neither legal nor practical or ethical to cast said spell.

Mummifying the corpse before placing the spirit in it has also been tried but this causes great pain to the mummified corpse when he or she is reanimated.

4-It messes up inheritance law

When there is an inheritance to be gained, particularly a large inheritance, the living rarely wish to give it back to a reanimated corpse. Even if they did love that corpse when it was alive.

5-A danger to the regime 

In the past, undead armies of zombies and animated skeletons have been used by the most powerful necromancers to try and take power, and no ruler wants to face this, particularly as they can be a pain in the ass to send back to death again. So for the same reasons why they don’t want guns and other weapons in the hands of the masses, they don’t want necromancers around in case any of them try to seize power and have the magical powers to try this and have a fair chance of success.

6-Loss of tax money 

Most countries have death duties, taxes that are paid when somebody dies. And the government of a country is not going to want to lose the money gained by that because someone was raised from the dead.

7-In a monarchy the heirs want to take over some day.

In an absolute monarchy, which a lot of fantasy countries are, neither the heirs of the monarch nor the nobility want the same King or Queen ruling over them indefinitely, if only because they want to rule the country if they are the heir , and at the very least have a different boot on their necks if they are members of the nobility, as a different monarch may be easier to influence.